I absolutely adore David Nicholls and I loved Us and One Day. I liked the premise that this one started off with. A man is reflecting back on his first love, in high school. It was cute how it all started around the play, Romeo and Juliet. There were a lot of different, smaller characters to keep up with. Each one had their own unique part and personality. I liked reading about the dimensions of Charlie’s family. The addition of the parents’ separation and new lives and bankruptcy really added to the story. I did feel like the book spent so much unnecessary time focusing on the play with not much else going on. It felt very long and too underwhelming for me. I didn’t feel invested in this one and felt like I just needed to finish to figure out what the ending goal was.